Designing Boron Nitride Islands in Carbon Materials for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide
Abstract
Heteroatom-doped carbons have drawn increasing research interest as catalysts for various electrochemical reactions due to their unique electronic and surface structures. In particular, co-doping of carbon with boron and nitrogen has been shown to provide significant catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, limited experimental work has been done to systematically study these materials, and much remains to be understood about the nature of the active site(s), particularly with regards to the factors underlying the activity enhancements of these boron–carbon–nitrogen (BCN) materials. Herein, we prepare several BCN materials experimentally with a facile and controlled synthesis method, and systematically study their electrochemical performance. We demonstrate the existence of h-BN domains embedded in the graphitic structures of these materials using X-ray spectroscopy. These synthesized structures yield higher activity and selectivity toward the 2e – ORR to H 2O 2 than structures with individual B or N doping. We further employ density functional theory calculations to understand the role of a variety of h-BN domains within the carbon lattice for the ORR and find that the interface between h-BN domains and graphene exhibits unique catalytic behavior that can preferentially drive the production of H 2O 2. Here, to the best of ourmore »
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- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1459647
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0008685; AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 140; Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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Chen, Shucheng, Chen, Zhihua, Siahrostami, Samira, Higgins, Drew, Nordlund, Dennis, Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Kim, Taeho Roy, Liu, Yunzhi, Yan, Xuzhou, Nilsson, Elisabeth, Sinclair, Robert, Norskov, Jens K., Jaramillo, Thomas F., and Bao, Zhenan. Designing Boron Nitride Islands in Carbon Materials for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b02798.
Chen, Shucheng, Chen, Zhihua, Siahrostami, Samira, Higgins, Drew, Nordlund, Dennis, Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Kim, Taeho Roy, Liu, Yunzhi, Yan, Xuzhou, Nilsson, Elisabeth, Sinclair, Robert, Norskov, Jens K., Jaramillo, Thomas F., & Bao, Zhenan. Designing Boron Nitride Islands in Carbon Materials for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b02798
Chen, Shucheng, Chen, Zhihua, Siahrostami, Samira, Higgins, Drew, Nordlund, Dennis, Sokaras, Dimosthenis, Kim, Taeho Roy, Liu, Yunzhi, Yan, Xuzhou, Nilsson, Elisabeth, Sinclair, Robert, Norskov, Jens K., Jaramillo, Thomas F., and Bao, Zhenan. Wed .
"Designing Boron Nitride Islands in Carbon Materials for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b02798. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1459647.
@article{osti_1459647,
title = {Designing Boron Nitride Islands in Carbon Materials for Efficient Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide},
author = {Chen, Shucheng and Chen, Zhihua and Siahrostami, Samira and Higgins, Drew and Nordlund, Dennis and Sokaras, Dimosthenis and Kim, Taeho Roy and Liu, Yunzhi and Yan, Xuzhou and Nilsson, Elisabeth and Sinclair, Robert and Norskov, Jens K. and Jaramillo, Thomas F. and Bao, Zhenan},
abstractNote = {Heteroatom-doped carbons have drawn increasing research interest as catalysts for various electrochemical reactions due to their unique electronic and surface structures. In particular, co-doping of carbon with boron and nitrogen has been shown to provide significant catalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, limited experimental work has been done to systematically study these materials, and much remains to be understood about the nature of the active site(s), particularly with regards to the factors underlying the activity enhancements of these boron–carbon–nitrogen (BCN) materials. Herein, we prepare several BCN materials experimentally with a facile and controlled synthesis method, and systematically study their electrochemical performance. We demonstrate the existence of h-BN domains embedded in the graphitic structures of these materials using X-ray spectroscopy. These synthesized structures yield higher activity and selectivity toward the 2e– ORR to H2O2 than structures with individual B or N doping. We further employ density functional theory calculations to understand the role of a variety of h-BN domains within the carbon lattice for the ORR and find that the interface between h-BN domains and graphene exhibits unique catalytic behavior that can preferentially drive the production of H2O2. Here, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of h-BN domains in carbon identified as a novel system for the electrochemical production of H2O2.},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.8b02798},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1459647},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
issn = {0002-7863},
number = 25,
volume = 140,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {6}
}
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